Fradinho - Broken Beach EP

Eclectic Beats Music

£12.58

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: EBM004
Release Date: 21 Oct 2022
Genre: UK Garage/Broken Beat

Track list:
Side-A
A1 – Afro Fado (feat. Ricardo Parreira – Portuguese Guitar)
A2 – Brasilenco
A3 – Cabanas
B-Side
B1 – Freedom
B2 – Pass The Joe (feat. Nanã Sousa Dias – Tenor Sax)
B3 – Shouffle

The fourth release of Eclectic Beats Music sees the Portuguese producer Fradinho on a sunny 6 track EP!

With a blend of Fado Guitar, Africa, Brazil, Latin flavours, Jazz and Funk, Fradinho uses the word play on the EP name "Broken Beach", with Broken Beats blending all these flavours into a warm beats fusion that brings back the sunshine.

Original tracks produced by Rui Fradinho
Portuguese Fado Guitar on A1 “Afro Fado” by Ricardo Parreira
Tenor Sax on B2 “Pass The Joe” by Nanã Sousa Dias

Fradinho’s Bio
Rui Fradinho has been DJing and record collecting since the age of 15, having played drums and keyboards on several different projects and starting his electronic music production journey in 2001, when he made his first ever original track – A Bright Future (release number 1 on the label).

Lover of music of all sorts, Rui’s musical base stems across different genres, including House, Drum N Bass, Hip Hop, Footwork, Bass Music, having more recently nurtured a deeper devoted passion for all things Jazz, Fusion and Broken Beat / Nu Jazz.

There are undeniable major influences from Jazz, Soul, Funk, Latin, African, Brazilian and Global music on his productions and Rui has released remixes for several artists on several labels such as Str4ta for Colin Curtis Presents, Nimbus Sextet for Acid Jazz, Luiz Gabriel Lopes for Da Lata Music, Momenta for Lazy Robot Records, Various artists for MJDC – Modern Jazz Dance Classics, David Borsu for Broadcite, Makala for Orrua Diskak and Ray Lugo for Ammonite Records.

Highlights of his DJ career include a 6 year residency at Sociedade Anonima club in Portugal, then Bicaense Café and Lux Club in Lisboa. Earlier in 2017, he did a stint on London’s Back2BackFM, playing at Dalston’s Club Makossa, the BBE Store in East London, closing the Chill Out Gardens stage in Portugal’s Boom Festival 2018, DJ’ed at Gilles Paterson’s first edition of We Out Here festival, currently guests at Birmingham’s Bruk Up Broken Beat night and opened the Portuguese festival LisbOn - Jardim Sonoro in 2022.